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Ok, apparently I play with throws a lil too much...

I was just in the other room playing with my anti-spin throws and through multiple screw ups, I found that you can throw your poi horizontally.

Now, if you just go and throw your poi from a horizontal move, they're obviously going to just fly off in a direction you dont want them to go (away from you or straight into your body). So, how do we fix this? Do it from a vertical move!

Take, for instance, the normal under arm weave throw. At the point that you would normally let the handle go so it flips over your arm, push the handle instead so that it rotates horizontally. The head pretty much stays still while the leash does one full rotation, horizontally, around it. You can then catch it and go back into a vertical spin, or use it as a transition into a horizontal plane move.

I have not yet figured out a way to gracefully throw from horizontal into vertical as the momentum of the head will always pull the poi off in an odd direction but IMO, vertical -> horizontal throws are cool enough

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Still dont think it would work. Once it leaves your hands, the momentum from the poi spinning would move into the heads and they would pull the poi in one direction.

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This is a post by tom, all spelling is deleberate
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